how many users?

[Fairlight]

On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 12:09:40PM -0500, Kenneth Brody thus spoke:
> On 12/5/2013 9:23 PM, Fairlight wrote:
> >On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 11:29:54AM -0500, Kenneth Brody thus spoke:
> >>
> >>But, if dclerk system's out to dreport, you'll see two entries.
> >>(Actually, you'll probably see 3, including the original runmenu.)
> >
> >Yes, and if you're running <= 5.6, my approach is still correct, since
> >system()ing off clerk and report ate another licence prior to that version.
> >Most of my clients are still on <= 5.0.14.
> 
> Given that 5.0.14 was released over 9 years ago, I didn't really
> feel the need to include that as part of the discussion.  ;-)

Then, respectfully as possible, you're out of touch with a sizeable chunk
of the userbase's desires, state, and direction.  I know far more people,
clients and non-clients both, who use <= 5.0.14 than not.  Most of the
ones I know have no intention of ever upgrading to any DRM-laden 5.0.15+
version.  They either don't need the new features, or don't need them
enough to put up with the license manager.  Ignoring that segment of the
installation base because you feel like it is really something I personally
find disrespectful to a large segment of said userbase.

Windows XP was released longer ago than that, and it's still not EOL for
another four months.  RHEL and SLE[SD] distributions have a shelf life of
ten years.  I scoff at your arbitrary nine year line in the sand for many
reasons.

> ps -e -o sess,pid,comm | grep [flags] | awk '{print $1}' | sort -n | wc -l

Bleh.  If I have to invoke sort(1), I'm going to use perl so that I'm
-sure- it's done right. sort(1) tends to do what it likes, rather than
what it intuitively should.  Even perl's sort() has this tendency, but the
saving grace is that you can actually specify a definable callback and
program the -exact- relationships you want, if the stock behaviour isn't
cutting it.

mark->
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